Files for the Masters projects, written in Python.

The objective of the project was to determine if the rate of expansion of the universe is uniform in all directions. The files presented are not maintained and are difficult to navigate as this was my first proper data analysis project in Python.

The supernovae data was sourced from the Union2.1 Database

http://supernova.lbl.gov/union/figures/SCPUnion2.1_mu_vs_z.txt

The reduced format of this data was produced in the (poorly commented) data_analysis_large.py file, with the output found in Reduced_Data_update.txt

Data for the cluster/supercluster data can be found in the data file.

The functions file (graphs/functions.py) was the main file where all the functions were stored. This is to provide consistency between all the functions and constants used throughout the project. Any simple data manipulation, such as splitting the components of the supernovae data into descrete lists is also done here so importing the data is smooth.

The graphs section is split into three files:

1. /cluster/

   Cluster analysis to determine if the cluster appreciably affects the rate of expansion of the universe.

2. /hubble_plots/

   Hubble diagrams going out to difference distances, comparing different directions etc.

3. /newsupercluster/

   Supercluster analysis and Supercluster and cluster analysis combined.

4. /spacial_plots/

   Mollwiede plots of the supernovae